R.I.P.

And livejournal has now produced this:

...which cracks me up to no end.

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Haiku for a newly neutered dog!

First you picked me up
I licked your nose, we were friends
Then you took my balls

Whoa! Where are my nuts?
Here one minute, gone the next.
You dog ball snatcher!!!

These pictures came one after another on my Friends list.

For this to a be a proper "I'm just sayin'", I'd need one of the pope in the same pose, but that's not the point. The point is, it's amusing synchronicity.

Dragon's eye.

Yes, it's a real photo. Bigger version at the link.

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"Oops" - a site full of pictures and movies of accidents, crashes, and mechanical failures, involving military hardware and civilian aircraft for the most part.

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North Carolina mob beats, kills innocent man.

Postcards from Baghdad.

riverbend, the girl from Baghdad, is still alive and blogging.

Listen to this little anecdote. One of my cousins works in a prominent engineering company in Baghdad- we’ll call the company H. This company is well-known for designing and building bridges all over Iraq. My cousin, a structural engineer, is a bridge freak. He spends hours talking about pillars and trusses and steel structures to anyone who’ll listen.

As May was drawing to a close, his manager told him that someone from the CPA wanted the company to estimate the building costs of replacing the New Diyala Bridge on the South East end of Baghdad. He got his team together, they went out and assessed the damage, decided it wasn’t too extensive, but it would be costly. They did the necessary tests and analyses (mumblings about soil composition and water depth, expansion joints and girders) and came up with a number they tentatively put forward- $300,000. This included new plans and designs, raw materials (quite cheap in Iraq), labor, contractors, travel expenses, etc.

Let’s pretend my cousin is a dolt. Let’s pretend he hasn’t been working with bridges for over 17 years. Let’s pretend he didn’t work on replacing at least 20 of the 133 bridges damaged during the first Gulf War. Let’s pretend he’s wrong and the cost of rebuilding this bridge is four times the number they estimated- let’s pretend it will actually cost $1,200,000. Let’s just use our imagination.

A week later, the New Diyala Bridge contract was given to an American company. This particular company estimated the cost of rebuilding the bridge would be around- brace yourselves- $50,000,000 !!

Click. Read. See the occupation from the perspective of one of the victims.

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This makes me laugh.

Click for a full-sized desktop-wallpaper-sized version.

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The Royal Game Of Ur.

Simple, clever, replay value. I like I like a lot.

A request for one of y'all with a paid or permanent account.

I have no need for livejournal's Paid Account features for the most part, but I've run into one I want to use. Once. This means that paying for a full account just to get it seems... wasteful.

Can somebody create a Syndicated Feed from
http://world-o-crap.com/blog/?feed=rss2
for me, please? I'm only just now realising that I haven't read that in months, since bagocrap died when they changed domain names.

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A street parking attendant in Brazil's crime-ridden city of Rio de Janeiro was charged with sawing a woman in two over a parking space dispute, police said on Wednesday.

Also,
The body of a British tourist who died on holiday in Ireland was flown back to the UK with an extra heart and pair of lungs, it emerged last night.